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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued). (search)
abbath, the members of the new society fitted up a hall in the neighborhood as a temporary place of worship, and their members gradually increased. Their pulpit was supplied by neighboring clergymen, and from the Theological Seminary in Andover, till Oct. 2; when seventeen members from the first church, with nine members of other churches who had removed lately to Medford, bringing with them letters of dismission, were organized into a church by an ecclesiastical council, of which Rev. William Greenough, of Newton, was chosen Moderator; and Rev. B. B. Wisner, of Boston, Scribe. The names of the original members were as follows (the seventeen first mentioned coming from the first church of Medford, the others from abroad):-- Galen James, Jesse Crosby, Thomas Jameson, Gilbert Blanchard, Mary Clay, Hephsibah Fitch, Nancy Fitch, Mary Magoun, Mary Blanchard, Elizabeth Baily, Harriet G. Rogers, Ann Clay, Mary R. James, Mary Blanchard, 2d, Nancy Jameson, Hannah Crosby, Mary Kidder, J
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 11: currency. (search)
mount only to two dollars! Taverns seemed to subserve all purposes. Auctions, theatricals, legerdemain, caucuses, military drills, balls, and dancing-schools, all came in place at the tavern. Especially sleigh-riding parties found them convenient. Medford was just about far enough from Boston to tempt a party to a ride on a pleasant moonlight evening. Scarcely one such evening passed without witnessing a gathering of young people, who brought with them their fiddler, or procured our Greenough; and who danced from seven to ten, then took a hearty supper, and reached Boston at twelve. New forms of trade and amusement have almost wholly displaced these former customs. Medford was favored in good tavern-keepers. Journeying in former days, one found queer specimens of humanity among this unique class. Generally, they were only variations of Yankee Doodle. Some landlords were so full of sunshine that it was June all the year round; others had minds so frost-bitten that there w
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), An Old-time Society. (search)
homas W. Coit, Jonas Wyeth, Jr., John G. Palfrey, William Newell, Nehemiah Adams, R. H. Dana, Ebenezer Francis, Jr., Andrews Norton, Alexander H. Ramsay, Richard M. Hodges, William Saunders, J. B. Dana, C. C. Little, Simon Greenleaf, J. E. Worcester, John A. Albro, C. C. Felton, Charles Beck, Morrill Wyman, James Walker, E. S. Dixwell, Converse Francis, William T. Richardson, H. W. Longfellow, Edward Everett, Asa Gray, Francis Bowen, Joseph Lovering, John Ware, John Holmes, Estes Howe, William Greenough, Robert Carter, E. N. Horsford, Charles E. Norton. Dr. Holmes remained president until his death in 1837, when Joseph Story was put in his place, Dr. Ware still remaining vice-president. Levi Hedge (Ll. D.) was treasurer until 1831, when, on account of ill-health and expected absence from town, he asked to be relieved from the cares of office, and a special meeting was called to choose his successor. Dea. William Brown was the choice of the society, and he held the post for five
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
eport Savings Bank was incorporated in 1853 by Thaddeus B. Bigelow, Benjamin Tilton, George C. Richardson, Robert Douglas, Charles Wood, Thomas Whittemore, John Sargent, George W. Livermore, Edward Hyde, Jeremiah Wetherbee, Lucius R. Paige, William Greenough, John M. St. Clair, and Aaron Rice. The bank has been successful from its start; its deposits, January 13, 1896, were $3,857,575.49; the number of corporators, 23; number of depositors, 12,164. Its officers are Daniel U. Chamberlin, presi, for a large number of their publications are edited by Cambridge men. Their first book, Craik's English of Shakespeare, edited by W. J. Rolfe, was published about the year 1867. Then followed the well-known series of Latin books by Allen and Greenough; the Greek Grammar, by Prof. W. W. Goodwin; Greek Lessons, by Prof. J. W. White; the Harvard Shakespeare, by Dr. Henry N. Hudson; the mathematical works of Prof. J. M. Peirce and Prof. W. E. Byerly, and many others. Among the other books mo
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
brary building, 83, 84, 228, 229. Public Schools of Cambridge, The, 187-208. Putnam Lodge of Masons, 284. Quakers in Cambridge, 12, 13. Quineboquin (the crooked) River, 123. Radcliffe College, why so named, 174, 175; established by the legislature, 175; Dr. Stearns's idea of a college for women in Cambridge, 175; origin of Radcliffe, 176; first plan for the collegiate instruction of women, 176; a house chosen, 177; Mr. Gilman unfolds his plan to President Eliot, 177, 178; Professor Greenough's reception of the scheme, 178: President Eliot willing the experiment should be tried, 178; the committee, 178; Harvard professors approve the scheme, 179; the first announcement, 179; the examinations, 180; work begun, 180; educational privileges for women, 180; the line of progress, 181; intellectual character of the students, 181, 182; certificates, 182; the secretary, 182; the quarters prove too small, 183; enlargement, 183; a guardian angel, 183; a building becomes a necessity,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
p. 419. West Point, Va. Engagement of May 7, 1862. Boston Evening Journal, May 9, 1862, p. 2, col. 5; May 10, p. 4, cola. 4, 7. — – Graphic description of engagement; special cor. Boston Evening Journal, May 13, 1862, p. 2, cola. 2, 3; May 15, p. 2, col. 3. White, Henry J. Drummer 6th Regt. M. V. M., statement of, about attack on musicians of 6th Regt. M. V. M. in Baltimore, Md., April 19, 1861; short. Boston Evening Journal, April 23, 1861, p. 2, col. 3. White, Lieut. Wm. Greenough, 12th Regt. M. V. I. Memorial of, entitled Our first lieutenant. Geo. Kimball. Bivouac, vol. 1, p. 139. Whitehall, N. C. Engagement of Dec. 16, 1862. See also Goldsboroa. — – Special cor.; N. Y. Herald. Boston Evening Journal, Dec. 26, 1862, p. 2, cola. 2-4. White House, Va. 1862. June. Peninsular battles, news of change of base; White House burned after evacuation. Boston Evening Journal, July 1, 1862, p. 4, col. 6. — – – Government stores, gunboats; appea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
tive enactment the following February. A hall in the neighborhood was soon fitted up as a temporary place of worship, and the pulpit was supplied by neighboring clergymen, and by students from the Theological Seminary at Andover, till October 2, when the seventeen members from the First Church, with nine members of other churches, who had removed lately to Medford, and had brought with them letters of dismission, were organized into a church by an ecclesiastical council, of which Rev. William Greenough, of Newton, was moderator, and Rev. B. B. Wisner, of Boston, was scribe. The church adopted a name which corresponded with that of the society, but June 25, 1857, changed it to the First Trinitarian Congregational Church of Medford. In this narrative, however, it will, for convenience, be referred to simply as the First, or Mother Church. The society retained its corporate name till its disbandment after the union of the First and Mystic Churches in 1874. A Sunday-school was